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philosopher. (Ref: Nietzsche, 2018, One of the French
Sections: 222&260&205; philosophers influenced by
Machiavelli, 2011, Vol. 5: 50) Machiavelli defines power as
He held that instead of follows:
insisting on the equality of Power is a strategy of a
human beings, we should complex position in the
think about the superior man social environment. (Foucalt,
or superman and consider 2022: 1926-1984)
gaining of power as one of
our goals. To achieve this In his famous book “The
goal, we need an ideology Prince”, Machiavelli considers
that makes the strong man the main goal of political
activity as the achievement of
stronger and the tired ones
paralyzed and destroyed. political power, then he does
However, religions, especially not consider politics to be
Christianity, have taken a limited to any moral
completely different path. (Ibid) discipline. So, he considers it
permissible to use any means
- Power and its Relationship to reach a political goal.
with Perfection and Human (Machiavelli, 2019b: 14)
Goals Machiavelli, like other
Machiavelli has not clearly proponents of the school of
described power in his works, power, regards the perfection
but he has referred a lot to of man as increasing the
keeping the power of the apparent power of the ruler
prince (Ruler, Superman and and the continuity of the
Model of the Perfect Man). government in a city and in a
It seems that for Machiavelli, country.
power is a political activity.
